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(05/31/11 2:00am)
My drink sloshed in its incongruous container an official Dartmouth paper coffee cup misappropriated after my Green Key compatriots snatched up all the conventional red Solos. Through the College logo printed on the cup's side, I gazed at my little taste of liquid courage, pondering an age-old question at an entirely absurd moment.
(04/29/11 2:00am)
The College's annual adjustments to tuition and financial aid (up and down, respectively) have inspired a series of recent responses. Last week, Roger Lott '14 ("Education on Credit," April 18) and Anise Vance '11 ("Access For All," April 21) debated the merits of need-based financial aid. The two arguments obviously go head-to-head, but I didn't find them completely at odds. There's a way to both prevent Dartmouth's policies from punishing students who do not qualify for aid while also preserving the need-blind system that promotes fairness and inclusivity:
(04/12/11 2:00am)
When describing Dartmouth to an outsider, the first descriptor that comes to mind is often: "Small, but not too small."
(03/30/11 2:00am)
A fundamental tension, born out of Dartmouth's two centuries of existence, stands at the crux of campus debate and causes tremendous harm to dialogue about the College's future.
(03/03/11 4:00am)
For the first time in Dartmouth history, professors now award more A and A-minus grades than all other grades combined.
(02/15/11 4:00am)
You're interviewing two Dartmouth seniors for a highly selective post-graduation job. Student A has a stellar academic record: a double major in theater and Arabic with a 3.87 major grade point average. Student B also worked toward a double major, chemistry and mathematics, but doesn't have the grades to match up only a 3.29 major GPA, which you know is worse than average at Dartmouth. Who would you hire?
(02/01/11 4:00am)
I've always thought it was odd that Dartmouth requires that its students can swim 50 yards before graduation, but not that they can write a coherent analytical essay of a few pages or more. Obviously the two skills aren't directly equivalent, but in my experience there's a much greater need for real writing instruction than any number of swimming lessons.
(01/20/11 4:00am)
Few students look forward to the process of choosing courses. Sifting through major plans, distributive requirements, class hours and off terms is hard enough. Adding to the pain, however, students currently have access to no more than the most basic information about Dartmouth courses.
(01/04/11 4:00am)
I've always believed that there are three types of learning.
(10/08/09 2:00am)
So much for institutional memory. Just three short months after Provost Barry Scherr announced he would remain in his current role through June 2011, he's jumping ship, in the latest high-profile departure from Parkhurst. Scherr's decision to step down marks an emphatic conclusion to the transition or rather the disintegration occurring at the highest level of Dartmouth's administration. From Jim Wright's planned exit, to Gail Zimmerman's firing, to Tom Crady's resignation and Rovana Popoff's departure, and now on to Scherr's bombshell, this has been a nightmarish year for anyone who values continuity and tradition at the College.
(08/11/09 2:00am)
Last time I checked, Dartmouth was smack in the middle of a budget crisis that led to the termination of numerous staff members. So why is so much money being wasted on student employees who perform negligible jobs?
(07/07/09 2:00am)
Since our new president's introduction in March, Jim Yong Kim has repeatedly referred to former College President John Sloan Dickey as a great model even likening himself to the former President during his first address to the College. Certainly Dickey's example is a strong one, but it is not the only, or perhaps even the best, example for Kim to follow.
(04/14/09 5:31am)
The inimitable specter of the "town hall meeting" has, over the course of the past few years, overrun anyone with even a modicum of interest in politics. Back before the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, candidates like John Edwards and John McCain came to our Hopkins Center to talk "directly to the people." Controversy raged last summer after then-presumptive Republican nominee McCain challenged his Democratic rival to a series of town hall debates. The phenomenon took such hold that even the mayor of my New Jersey hometown has come to boast of the "14 town hall meetings" he has held (all sparsely attended and woefully under-promoted) since taking office.
(03/04/09 8:41am)
No one in our generation doubts the transformative power that computing and the Internet have had on society. We were the first kids to grow up hating the awful noise of dial-up modems, playing Oregon Trail and learning to distrust most information found on Geocities pages. For that reason, we are also the first generation capable of reforming the web beast and harnessing its constructive powers for future good.
(02/17/09 7:20am)
Conventional wisdom on this Opinion page, and in the Dartmouth community in general, has recently been rooted in anti-bureaucracy, anti-administration rhetoric -- and no more so than in the recent debates over budget cuts. But in the wake of the recent layoffs, a defense of the the bureaucratic system at large may be in order.
(02/04/09 8:03am)
Until a few months ago, I, and many others, had been operating under the critically false assumption that the College was working with an essentially unlimited budget.
(01/20/09 7:57am)
This past weekend, in honor of Barack Obama's inauguration, I experienced a tremendous yearning to listen to the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy and his famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
(01/06/09 8:40am)
The death of former Senator Claiborne Pell on New Year's Day after a 15-year fight with Parkinson's disease symbolized the sad, slow decay of the federal college aid grant program that bears his name, as well as the increased value of education and human capital in the United States.
(12/02/08 9:35am)
I finally understand how people in other countries can hate the United States.
(11/17/08 9:05am)
There is no more hollow term in big-time college athletics than the fabled "student-athlete."